Cloth board



July 5, 1932. n. R. THOMSON CLOTH' BOARD Filed sept. `19, 1930 Patented July 5, 1932 i UNITED lSTATES DAVID R. THOMSON, or PATEnsoN, NEW JERSEY i CLOTH BOARD Application led September 19, 1930. Serial No. 482,945.

rlhis invention relates to structures known as cloth-boards on which cloth is wound in the form of a flat package or bolt.

These cloth-boards are frequently formed by providing a rectangular elongated wooden skeleton frame and a wrapping of paper surrounding the same and glued in place with usually a capping of additional paper at each end. The exposed ends of the board serve for labelling` to designate the kind, quantity, price and other circumstances affecting the cloth. If the mass of cloth works endwise of the cloth-board or becomes skewed thereon it is the practice to strike the package or bolt endwise against some obstacle, as a tableedge, to square up the windings of cloth with respect to the board and this practice weakens the frame of the latter if it does not actually render it completely unserviceable.

The object of this invention is therefore to provide for reinforcing the ends of the cloth-board, the means for that purpose to be constructed so that it can be readily applied at any time without the use of special implements or apparatus and so that it will be also readily removable by an intentional effort to that end but not otherwise and so that, further it will be adapted for reception of a label.

To this end I provide an elongated sheath or guard which is preferably applied by slipping it lengthwise of itself onto the end of the cloth-board and which when it is so applied effects a gouging of the paper or other impressionable surface of the board or in any event bites into it so that the guard is held in place, i. e., against pulling olf.

In order to avoid raw edges on the guard (which is formed of stiff sheet material) at its ends these are peened over and this peening over is extended into the ends of said bent-olf marginal portions or flanges, thus desirably strengthening the latter at such ends.

In the drawing;

Fig. l is a perspective view of a clothboard embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section on line 2--2, Fig. l;

Fig. 3V is a similar section of the clothyto the frame.

board before application of the reinforcing means or guard;

- Figrll is a section, on said line, ofthe guard;

f Fig. 5 is an inside fragmentary plan of the guard; and

Fig. 6 a section on line 6-6, Fig. 5.

The cloth board shown is of well-known construction, that is to say: A skeleton wood frameis formed by parallel longitudinal strips l and parallel transverse strips 2 interposed between and arranged atfthe ends of strips l, the strips 1 being secured to strips 2 by nails 3. Around this frame is stretched tightly a sheet of paper 4 which preferably extends from end to end of the frame, and this is held in place by gluing it Over each end of the thuscovered frame is fitted a paper cap 5 which Y is held in place by gluing. How 'this cap is speciiically formed is not here material. For the purpose of the present invention it is sufcient to note that by the construction described at least one of the two opposite broad faces of the board (one of which vfaces is presented to the observer in Fig. l) is impressionable, though this condition may be provided or exist otherwise than by application of paper. The impressionable quality is present, as will appear, so that the guard or sheath to be described may bite into the board and thereby obtain a strong hold against displacement olf the board lengthwise `thereof or in a direction more or less perpendicular to its end face.

The guardl or sheath consists of a strip of stiff elastic sheet material, asV metal, 6 having longitudinal flanges 7 reaching in the same general direction and extending nearly fromA end .to end of the strip.` (Incidentally, the portion of the strip intervening between its anges may be stamped out to form a channel or countersink, at 7, at what is its Aouter face for the reception of a label 8, the countersink having overhangs 9 to keep the label in place, the label being usually introduced by sliding it endwise of and into the countersink). One (but preferably each) flange has a sharp indenting portion extending lengthwise thereof and adapted when the Cil guard is assembled with the board as will sheathing relation to said end and with said appear, to bite into the impression able face anges receiving the latter between them and of the board to which it is presented. This said portion presented to said impressionable portion in the example is formed by forming face said portion will gouge the latter.

the longitudinal edge of the iiange sharp, as at 7a, and bending the edge portion of the flange toward the other iange. Whcn the guard is in place on the board it grips the latter between its two flanges, for which purpose the space between said indenting portion and the opposite flange is less, when the guard is removed, than the thickness of the board. The guard is to be slipped i lengthwise of itself onto the board, and to start the movement it will be best to slope the ends of the anges towardtheir basal plane, as at 10 in Fig. 6.

When the guard is slipped onto the end of the board lengthwise of itself as indicated and so that it grips the board between its flanges the sharp indenting portions gouge the impressionable face as indicated at 11 in Fig. 2. Said portions are thus left biting into or acutely indenting saidface, and while the guard may be removed by a certain degree of effort applied in the reverse direction lengthwise thereof it requires considerably greater effort to remove it from the board lengthwise of the board or in a direction more or less perpendicular to its end face, if in fact it is removable at all in such direction by mere hand effort. My invention does not depend on the application of th-e guard to the board as described, to wit, with incidental gouging; however it is applied, if its sharp indentin-g portion extending lengthwise thereof is adapted to bite into the impressionable face of the board my invention will be accomplished. y

The ends of the strip 6 are preferably peened over, as at 12,-to impart a finish and avoid the presence of raw edges, and this is preferablyv also present so as to include the ends of the flanges, as at 13, whereby an augmentation of their stiffness results; this latter is desirable at thel ends of the fianges to keep them from being distorted at their ends into permanently unduly spacedl relation to each other if a certain degree of care is not used to direct the guard straight across the board when slipping it onto the same.

Having thus fully described lmy invention what I claim is:

A reinforcing guard for a board having at least one broad face thereof impressionabl'e near the end of the board, said guard consist ing of an elongated strip of stiff elastic sheet material having longitudinal side flanges reaching in the same general direction and one of them formed with a sharpindenting portion extending lengthwise thereof and reaching toward the other Hang-e' and spaced from the latter lessthan the thickness of said board, whereby when' said guard .is forced lengthwise of itself ontov th'ej board into In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

DAVID R. THOMSON. 

